Jon Corelis Theocritus Sweet Poems

• 1. Sing Something Sweet
  Prythee, sing something sweet to me-you that can play
  First and second at once. Then I too will essay
  To croak on the pipes: and yon lad shall salute
  Our ears with a melody breathed through his flute.
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• 2. Hylas
  Not for us only, Nicias, (vain the dream,)
  Sprung from what god soe'er, was Eros born:
  Not to us only grace doth graceful seem,
  Frail things who wot not of the coming morn.
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• 3. The Battle Of The Bards
  COMETAS.
  Goats, from a shepherd who stands here, from Lacon, keep away:
  Sibyrtas owns him; and he stole my goatskin yesterday.
  
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• 4. A Statue Of Figwood
  For yon oaken avenue, swain, you must steer,
  Where a statue of figwood, you'll see, has been set:
  It has never been barked, has three legs and no ear;
  But I think there is life in the patriarch yet.
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• 5. Harvest-home
  Once on a time did Eucritus and I
  (With us Amyntas) to the riverside
  Steal from the city. For Lycopeus' sons
  Were that day busy with the harvest-home,
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• 6. The Herdsmen
  BATTUS.
  Who owns these cattle, Corydon? Philondas? Prythee say.
  
  CORYDON.
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• 7. The Sorceress
  Where are the bay-leaves, Thestylis, and the charms?
  Fetch all; with fiery wool the caldron crown;
  Let glamour win me back my false lord's heart!
  Twelve days the wretch hath not come nigh to me,
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• 8. The Two Ladies Of Syracuse
  GORGO.
  Is dame Praxinoa in?
  
  PRAXINOA.
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• 9. The Sweethearts
  Thou art come, love, come! Scarce thrice hath dusk to day
  Given place-but lovers in an hour grow gray.
  As spring's more sweet than winter, grapes than thorns,
  The ewe's fleece richer than her latest-born's;
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